Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

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sumed name, (imagining that she would be unrecognized,)
to a lady who had been familiar with her face while she was
in the employ of Mrs. Woodward, and asked for some outof-door employment, offering to labor for a pittance that
would hardly have saved her from starvation. If those
who had been the greatest sufferers from her wickedness
had looked upon her then, with a knowledge of the fact, in
her utter wretchedness, it would surely have disarmed
them of all resentment. Whatever her after life may have
been, (of which I have no knowledge,) she was evidently
suffering at that period beneath a weight far heavier to bear
than poverty, even in its most dire extreme-an evil conscience, and to such a degree, perchance, as sometimes to
feel like Cain, that her punishment was greater than she
could bear.
iAMBLE CXXVIT.
StIate Street in 1793- Drown BFaalily-Dr. LIyman Spaldin — Capt. Peter Coles — Saluel E. Cones.
IN previous Rambles we have given sketches of State
street previous to the fire of 1813. Beginning now at
Sherburne's wharf, the eastern end of the street on the
south side, we will proceed west on that side of the street,
and give the residents therein about seventy years ago.
First was Capt. Benjamin Sherburne's N. I. Hotel, on the
east corner of Water street. On the west corner was a
small shoemaker's shop. Next was a long two-story.house
owned by John H. Seaward, occupied by Griffin's e-it nail
manufactory, by John Yeaton, tobacconist, and Timothy
Winn, 3d. (" Three Penny Winn.') Next comes WViiliam
Meserve's dwelling house, John Libbey's shoe-shop,